Description
The Blue Sweater is the inspiring tale of a lady who left a occupation in world banking to spend her lifestyles on a quest to keep in mind world poverty and to find robust new techniques of tackling it. It began again house in Virginia, with the blue sweater, a present that briefly changed into her prized ownership—till the day she outgrew it and gave it away to Goodwill. 11 years later in Africa, she noticed a tender boy dressed in that very sweater, along with her identify nonetheless at the tag inside of. That the sweater had made its trek the entire option to Rwanda used to be plentiful proof, she idea, of ways we’re all hooked up, how our movements—and state of being inactive—contact other folks each day around the globe, other folks we would possibly by no means understand or meet.
From her first stumbling efforts as a tender idealist venturing forth in Africa to the advent of the trailblazing group she runs lately, Novogratz tells gripping tales with unforgettable characters—girls dancing in a Nairobi slum, unwed moms beginning a bakery, brave survivors of the Rwandan genocide, marketers development products and services for the negative in opposition to unimaginable odds.
She presentations, in techniques each hilarious and heartbreaking, how conventional charity incessantly fails, however how a brand new type of philanthropic making an investment known as “affected person capital” can assist in making other folks self-enough and will amendment hundreds of thousands of lives. Extra than simply an autobiography or a how-to steer to addressing poverty, The Blue Sweater is a choice to motion that demanding situations us to supply dignity to the negative and to reconsider our engagement with the sector.
